Aerial surveillance oblique photographs for the Waikawau, Awaroa, Marokopa, and Manganui River catchments. Surveillance images to be flown to transect lines of 500m apart. The surveillance photographs were flown by a fixed wing aeroplane with side mounted cameras continuously recording the flight path. This work was carried out by Biospatial Limited. Contract ICM2016/2017-1896

Aerial photography was captured over the Tongariro and Tauranga-Taupo Delta areas in the Taupo
District totalling approximately 24 km2. The areas of capture are located in the Waikato Region of the North Island. All product deliverables supplied in terms of NZTM and Moturiki 1953 height datum.

These GIS layers are provided in support of the Waikato Regional Council Water Allocation Calculators (WAC). They present data for all active Resource Consents for Water takes from Authorisations and Application Activities. They are views of data held within the Consents module of the Integrated Regional Information System (IRIS) database.

Application Authorisation Consent Download IRIS Water allocation Water conservation Water use Waterway

Inland lake bathymetry for Lakes Karapiro and Arapuni, including scanned original images published by the New Zealand Oceanographic Institute (1986) and line-work captured from these images.
Also digitized bathymetry from other New Zealand Oceanographic Institute maps. (LAKES_BATHYMETRY)
Also DOC bathymetry from Lakes Areare, Rotomanuka and Ruatuna.

Terrestrial vegetation, sand dunes and wetlands over 0.5ha mapped off 2001/2002 WRAPS orthophotography using a slightly simplified version of the LCDB (1 and 2) classifications. Only classes relevant to regional biodiversity have been mapped.

Terrestrial vegetation, sand dunes and wetlands over 0.5ha mapped off 2007 WRAPS orthophotography using a slightly simplified version of the LCDB (1 and 2) classifications. Only classes relevant to regional terrestrial vegetation and wetland biodiversity have been mapped.

This wetland dataset was created to assist in identifying wetlands for the Biodiversity Inventory and SNA project carried out by the Waikato Regional Council 2015-2017. The dataset is a combination of six different datasets, and the methodological approach followed closely a methodology process outlined by the US EPA (Environmental Protection Agency).

This layer shows the location of 330 sites where biological control agents (bio agents) were released during the 1999/2000 operational year for the purpose of plant pest control (details of Subsequent years will be published when available.)

A Key Ecological Site (KES) is an area of privately owned land with high ecological value, as determined by validated survey using Regional Policy Statement criteria. The purpose of the KES program is to promote with landowners the opportunities that are available to enhance biodiversity management of key ecological sites, in perpetuity. Boundaries for a Key Ecological Site are based on ecological information first and foremost and are identified by private property boundaries or physical features.

This layer shows the boundaries of 51 contract areas in the Waikato Region and three in the north of the Taranaki Region that are under the administration of Waikato Regional Council for the 2002/2003 operational year (Subsequent years will be published when available).

This GIS dataset provides attributes about all Authorisations. It is a view of data held within the Consents module of the Integrated Regional Information System (IRIS) database. Active Navigational Safety Permits, Active Building Consents and Active Resource Consents can be downloaded using this facility.

This dataset comprises several GIS layers and image backdrops derived from Waikato Regional Council’s 100m Digital Elevation Model (DEM). The elevation layer summarises a range of elevations and the aspect layer summarises a range of aspects. The purpose of these layers is for GeoMedia users to be able to display and analyse elevation and aspect information. Image backdrops derived from the 100m DEM are a shaded relief image backdrop and hypsometrically tinted image. These images are designed to provide contextual information for display behind other GIS datasets.

The survey covered people’s perceptions of their local, urban and rural environments, their environmental attitudes, knowledge, behaviours, their natural hazard awareness and preparedness and their views on environmental laws.

This survey covered people’s perceptions of their local, urban and rural environments, their environmental attitudes, knowledge, behaviours, their natural hazard awareness and preparedness and their views on environmental regulations.

WRC recognises that sustainable resource management requires an understanding of environmental perceptions and issues of people who live in the region. To explore trends in community views, a number of surveys have been undertaken including the Environmental Awareness, Attitudes and Action (EAAA) Survey and the New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) survey.

Monitoring of the extent, distribution and type of estuarine habitats is one of several elements in Waikato Regional Council’s strategy to develop a Regional Estuary Monitoring Programme to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the Region’s estuarine environments and the threats they face, and to improve our management of these important systems.

Comprises of core attributes pertaining to the sampling site and fish samples but also join to data such as REC (River Environments Classification) and FENZ (Freshwater Ecosystems of NZ) to provide a wide range of details including climate, land cover, geomorphology, fish population predictions, ecosystem pressures and the like.

WRC maintains a set of data layers that support the mapping requirements for Future Proof project. Baseline data for Future Proof is from 2009 CRS Property annual snapshot. A layer is built for every year after 2009 and a difference layer is built (for the change in data) between each year.

Business CBD Census Commercial Cycling Development Future Proof Industry Land use Lifestyle Population Residential Rural Urban

This dataset shows the location(s) for various identified flora, fauna, and sites that are within the boundaries of the Hauraki Gulf Marine Spatial Plan (HGMSP) area and that are of significance and/or relevance to the HGMSP.

Datasets used in the Draft Waikato Regional Plan Change 1 - Waikato and Waipa River Catchments (branded as Healthy Rivers: Plan for Change / Wai Ora: He Rautaki Whakapaipai). Compliance dates have been updated to reflect public notification update at 9 April 2018.

This dataset contains a number of historical shorelines mapped from surveys and aerial photographs. Data is available for a number of locations around the Waikato Coast, mostly in areas with development at risk from coastal erosion.

Two data sets that show land cover for the Upper Waikato Catchment (Karapiro Dam to Lake Taupo gates) as at 1992/1996 and 2001/2002. The data uses a very simple land cover classification that groups land cover types together if they have similar hydrological characteristics

The layer uses majority overlap analysis for veg types as well as providing the percent of each polygon covered by the major veg type from particular vegetation layer. Querying discrepancies between veg types sourced from different layers will be useful for validating vegetation classification across existing datasets. One of the benefits of the process used to create this layer is that I can now add new vegetation datasets fairly easily.

A data set of the infaunal macrobenthic communities of intertidal estuarine sand-flats in the Waikato Region. A large part of this data set is the result of the monitoring of estuaries for state of the environment reporting (i.e. Regional Estuary Monitoring Programme). Currently this data set includes information from two estuaries in the Waikato Region: southern Firth of Thames and Whaingaroa (Raglan).

Iwi, Hapu and other grouping boundaries within the Waikato Region. These boundaries are provided as a resource not intended to be used to diminish or challenge Mana Whenua status, but to assist Council maintain its inclusive approach to work effectively with Tangata Whenua.

This dataset has information about the geographic location(s) where environmental data are/have been collected for Bores and Wells. Data is usually obtained where a consent has been granted and the bore construction proceeded. Drillers as part of the consent process return the data to Waikato Regional Council.

This layer has information about the geographic location(s) where environmental data have been collected, as grouped by dataset. A dataset is a grouping of related data, as collected for a particular purpose.
This layer reflects the content of the LOCATED Application, which catalogues the locations in the Waikato region where Waikato Regional Council holds environmental data/information electronically.

Waikato Regional Council has ownership or other vested interest in land parcels and other portions of land around the region. These include land owned by council, land assigned to purposes such as flood protection and management, soil stability and water quality. Some of these lands can be on- leased for farming, owned by other government agencies or have related covenants affecting their use.

LIDAR survey and associated data for the 2014/2015 flying season, to provide detailed topographic data for the flood protection stopbanks (Mangawara River, Piako River and Waihou River), and specific features (Torehape and Firth of Thames wetland systems) and the West Coast cliff/shore line and some estuaries (Marokopa, Awakino, Mokau and Port Waikato).

AAM was engaged by Taupo District Council to undertake the Aerial Imagery and LiDAR
survey over the Taupo area. To this end, LiDAR data was captured from a fixed wing aircraft
on 19th of November 2015.

This dataset contains 0.5m contours taken from the half metre contour set associated with the WRC LiDAR data collection. This layerfile preparation of the LiDAR contours has been produced to allow viewing of the contours in the ESRI Waikato Maps services.

The Marine Farms data set is the location of Licences and Leases for the Marine Farms in the Waikato Region with the addition of the Wilsons Bay marine farming zone and the Coromandel marine farming zone that were added to the Waikato regional coastal plan in 1999 and 2011 respectively.

Waikato Region Airsheds are areas gazetted pursuant to the Resource Management (National Environmental Standards Relating to Certain Air Pollutants, Dioxins and Other Toxics) Regulations 2004. This is an MFE requirement and identifies areas for the purpose of air quality management. Survey Office (SO) plans of each area have been registered with LINZ.

'High', 'very high' and 'outstanding' natural character areas of the Waikato region. Dataset created to accompany the report "Boffa Miskell Limited 2016. Natural Character Study of the Waikato Coastal Environment".

Outstanding Natural Features and Landscapes (ONFL) is a dataset identifying the indicative location of features and landscapes with regionally significant and unique outstanding characteristics, as defined by a consortium consisting of O’Connor Planning Consultants Ltd, Mary Buckland Landscape Architect, Chow Hill and GHD Ltd. A combination of physical and visual characteristics and psychological and historical associations give these landscapes very high value.

The ecosystem classification used to map potential ecosystems of the Waikato Region was developed by the Department of Conservation, as a tool for prioritising ecosystem management (Singers & Rogers 2014).

The property layer is essentially a join of the LINZ CRS parcels and Valuation data (As supplied from District Valuation Roll) extracted from the WRC LAND application. It allows users to access and use the non spatial District Valuation Roll data within GIS applications.

The river assets have been created through various mechanisms. Originally they were digitised from hard copy A1 drawings. There are some assets within this dataset that have been derived from the New Zealand Map Grid (NZMG) coordinates from a Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinate survey of their position. They cover various parts of the whole region.

Polygons of flood extent (Actual and Modeled) and / or ponding extent with point source data of designs and / or actual flood levels which give an indication of the geographical extent of flood risk for the Waikato Region.

RACS Foreshores is a dataset created by the WRC Integrated Catchment Management Asset Management Team. The data is designed to supplement Conquest derived Lake Taupo Foreshore or other Foreshore types.

This data represents the grazing licence scheme data where Waikato Regional Council (WRC) owned and Managed (owned by the crown) land is licensed out to Farmers to graze their stock on. These areas are mostly stopbanks used in the flood protection schemes.

This dataset is a visual representation of how the Region has been divided for management purposes for different work programs by Integrated Catchment Management. Includes work supervisors/staff responsible for the various management zones

The Differential Boundary GIS Layers form part of the rating classification for the Piako Flood Protection Scheme. They are the spatial component of the system used to calculate and apportion a separate rate to ratepayers that receive direct benefit from the Piako River Flood Protection Scheme.

The Differential Boundary GIS Layer form part of the rating classification for the Waihou Valley Scheme. They are the spatial component of the system used to calculate and apportion a separate rate to ratepayers that receive direct from the Waihou Valley Scheme.

Also named 'Project Watershed' for ease of community recognition Waikato River Catchment Services addresses issues of flood protection, soil conservation and river management in the greater Waikato region.

RACS Reaches is a dataset created by the Information Management/Asset Management Team in River and Catchment Services Group. The data is designed to supplement Conquest derived Reaches. Reaches are a combination of several factors (Catchments, River/Stream Centrelines, State Highway Centrelines).

This dataset shows the location of all Regional Estuary Monitoring Programme (REMP) pegs and plates as positioned by GPS to within about 15 metres. The attributes allow subsets of the data to be viewed in a GIS. Three views show the pegs marking the corner extents of biological monitoring, the pegs used for sediment monitoring and the plates used for sediment monitoring. Pegs that are not being used are also able to be viewed from the source table.

Classification of the strategically important road and rail corridors in the Waikato region as outlined in WRCs Regional Land Transport Plan 2015-45 (RTLP). The classification was developed to focus investment on the transport corridors that will provide the greatest contributions toward meeting the RLTP objectives.

Each reach of the MFE/NIWA River Environment Classification (REC) network for the Waikato Region was assessed for culverts identified in Waikato Regional Council’s culvert database, dams, waterfalls and floodgates downstream. Reaches were given attributes of 0 (no presence downstream), 1 (presence downstream) or 3 (presence on this reach).

This data set forms part of a group of data sets of significant natural areas (SNA) of the Waikato Region, which are part of a project for identifying, assessing and prioritising SNA for biodiversity management.

The council identifies significant natural areas (SNA) as areas that meet one or more criteria for significance in the Waikato Regional Policy Statement. Identification of SNA is an important step in managing the region’s natural heritage, protecting threatened species from the risk of extinction, reconnecting fragmented ecosystems, and meeting the requirements of the Resource Management Act 1991. Significant natural areas provide us with a wide range of ecosystem services, including habitat for native plant and animal species, flood or erosion control, providing oxygen, helping to regulate climate, and scenic appeal.

This dataset is the result of a joint project between Waikato Regional Council (WRC / the Council) and Waikato Raupatu River Trust (representing Waikato-Tainui). It is a stock take of whitebait stand locations on the Waikato River as at May 2014.

Identifies the urban and peri-urban areas in the Waikato Region that are estimated to have a combined urban and rural residential population greater than 1,000 as at 2016. Each area provides data on the name, area (in hectares), the Statistics New Zealand census usually resident population count for 1991, 1996, 2001, 2006 and 2013, and the Statistics New Zealand annual estimated resident population count 1996-2016.

WISE (Waikato Integrated Scenario Explorer) is a software tool to be used as a integrated spatial decision support system to explore economic, environmental and social/cultural outcomes of decisions over space and time.

Flow readings, suspended sediment yields and surface water temperatures for rivers and streams in the Waikato region. This data is collected to characterise river discharge, water quality, and catchment erosion.

The REC organises information about the physical characteristics of rivers, including catchment climate, topography, geology and land cover. The REC system is a synthetic river network derived from a hydrologically correct digital elevation model.

The data set describes the classification of water bodies in the Region set by the Waikato Regional Plan. The data set contains feature classes of the lakes and rivers comprising classified water bodies.

Data from cross sectional surveys of the Waikato River. This is used to monitor natural and induced changes in the riverbed and to model future changes in the level of surface water at low flow and flood conditions.

The Waipa afforestation feasibility study is to assist with implementation of the Waipa Catchment Plan and the Waikato-Waipa River Restoration Strategy. The study evaluates alternative land use options that result in the establishment of semi-permanent (woody) vegetation on erosion-prone land.

Sustainable resource management requires an understanding of the environmental perceptions and issues of people who live in the Waikato region. To develop this understanding WRC has undertaken a number of surveys and interviews to explore trends in community views, including the most recent ‘Your Environment – What Matters?’